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/rɪsˈɛʃən/ /rˌisˈɛʃən/ Listen

Recession

noun

The state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year.

A small concavity. Synonyms: corner, niche, recess.

The withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service. Synonym: recessional.

The act of ceding back. Synonym: ceding back.

The act of becoming more distant. Synonym: receding.

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"Recession" Quotes from Famous Books

... increase of the soul's volume we do not mean an actual increase; because the depths of all souls are equally unfathomable when their recession inwards is considered. By such an increase we refer to the forth-flowing of the soul as it manifests itself through the physical body. Thus our theory brings us back, as all theories must if they are consonant with experience, ...

— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys

... "note the gradual approach and gradual recession of the sun- god, so gradual that we reach either extreme in a manner imperceptibly, and before we are aware of ...

— The Memorabilia - Recollections of Socrates • Xenophon

... directions, and when the jibboom of the schooner came down with the next recession of a wave I swung myself to it by means of the chain, using the stays to brace ...

— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine

... instances of a people originally well-formed and good-looking, being brought, by imperfect diet and a variety of physical hardships, to a meaner form. It is remarkable that prominence of the jaws, a recession and diminution of the cranium, and an elongation and attenuation of the limbs, are peculiarities always produced by these miserable conditions, for they indicate an unequivocal retrogression towards the type of the lower animals. Thus we see nature alike willing to go back and to go forward. ...

— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers

... already in this country, and no circumstances can tolerate an exposure of our citizens in China, merchants or missionaries, to the consequences of so sudden an abrogation of their treaty protection. Fortunately, however, the actual recession in the flow of the emigration from China to the Pacific Coast, shown by trustworthy statistics, relieves us from any apprehension that the treatment of the subject in the proper course of diplomatic negotiations will introduce any ...

— Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes - A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • James D. Richardson

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